Project WILD's mission is to provide wildlife-based conservation and environmental education that fosters responsible actions toward wildlife and related natural resources. All curriculum materials are backed by sound educational practices and theory, and represent the work of many professionals within the fields of education and natural resource management from across the country.
WILD Outside Assistant Manager- Western Canada, Canadian Wildlife Federation
I'm an environmental educator with over 12 years of experience working directly working with land conservation, outdoor recreation and nature experiential education. Now working with the WILD Outside program (for high school age youth), I now help to mentor a wide variety... Read More →
Will Gadd is a legend in the extreme sports world. He won the X Games, set two world records for paragliding, and safely led numerous large TV and research expeditions into highly dangerous—and rewarding—environments. He climbed up a frozen Niagara Falls, flew a paraglider over the Grand Canyon, and taught his kids (and doctors and oil sands workers) to positively manage risk with the direct, entertaining and effective tools he learned through a lifetime of living on the edge. He speaks with personal humor and professional depth on effective tools to do great things while staying safe, team resiliency, succeeding in low-knowledge environments, and doing what the everyone said was, “Impossible!” Most recently he and his teams found new life forms in glacial caves for a Discovery TV show, and helped a planetary scientist sample the world’s oldest rocks in Canada’s Arctic. He is an award-winning author, film maker and (no awards) dad in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. His current book project is titled , “Surviving and Succeeding in High-Hazard Environments,” published fall ’25, based on his own experiences and interviews with ten of the top medical, industrial, corporate and military risk managers in the world.
